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Man Quotes


"Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse."


"It is bad for a young man to sin; but it is worse for an old man to sin."


"Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them."


"There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange."


"When someone came to ask us for help, it was sacred. We did not even think twice. We helped them, even if we had only meagre means; we offered them arms, a little bit of money, and in occasion, men."


"Searching for what I need, and I don't even know precisely what that is, I was going from a man to a man, and I saw that all of them together have less than me who has nothing, and that I left to each of them a bit of that what I don't have and I've been searching for."


"A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."


"Great affection is often the cause of violent animosity. The quarrels of men often arise from too great a familiarity."


"We must guarantee the quality of the existence of the men and women of tomorrow."


"Man has now become an adjunct to perfect and carry forward these conquests."



"Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men."


"The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things."


"The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations."


"Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as well as women, even by children."


"The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins."


"A genuine man goes to the roots. To be a radical is no more than that: to go to the roots."


"Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die."


"Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad."


"A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man - he must view the man in his world."


"By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward."
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"You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win."


"Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose."



"The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it."


"I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man."



"The true reason of Ms. Rice's attack against Russia is very simple. Condoleezza Rice is a very cruel, offended woman who lacks men's attention."
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